εὐώνυμος
left
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2176 appears in the Book of Mark — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Mark
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ευωνυμος (euṓnymos) means “left.” Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (56% of all occurrences). With 9 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Matthew 20:21, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2176 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 78%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 11%
- Johannine 1 verse · 11%
- Revelation 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Left 6×, Left hand 4×
- American Standard Version: Left 6×, Left hand 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Left 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Left 5×, Left hand 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2176 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2176 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2176 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2176 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- of good name and of good omen
- left, on the left hand
Word origin
Derived from ευ (eû) (G2095) — to prosper.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2176 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εὐωνύμων euōnýmōn | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 20:21 | 7 |
| εὐώνυμον euṓnymon | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 21:3 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2176, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ευαγγελιζω euangelízō G2097 to evangelize
- ευαρεστος euárestos G2101 pleasing
- ευγενης eugenḗs G2104 noble
- ευδια eudía G2105 fair weather
- ευδοκεω eudokéō G2106 to be pleased
- ευδοκια eudokía G2107 pleasure
- ευεργετης euergétēs G2110 benefactor
- ευθετος eúthetos G2111 well situated
- ευθυμος eúthymos G2115 courageous
- ευθυς euthýs G2117 straight
- ευκαιρος eúkairos G2121 opportune
- ευκοπωτερος eukopṓteros G2123 easy
- ευλαβης eulabḗs G2126 devout
- ευλογεω eulogéō G2127 to praise
- ευμεταδοτος eumetádotos G2130 generous
- ευνοεω eunoéō G2132 to wish well
- ευοδοω euodóō G2137 to prosper
- ευπειθης eupeithḗs G2138 obedient
- ευπεριστατος euperístatos G2139 besetting
- ευποιΐα eupoiḯa G2140 doing good
- ευπρεπεια euprépeia G2143 beauty
- ευπροσδεκτος euprósdektos G2144 acceptable
- ευπροσεδρος euprósedros G2145 devoted
- ευπροσωπεω euprosōpéō G2146 to please
+13 more words share this root (not shown).
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 42 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ευωνυμος appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 10 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 14:22 εὐώνυμος
- Numbers 20:17 εὐώνυμος
- Joshua 13:3 εὐώνυμος
- 2 Samuel 16:6 εὐώνυμος
- 1 Kings 22:19 εὐώνυμος
- 2 Kings 11:11 εὐώνυμος
- 2 Chronicles 3:17 εὐώνυμος
- Song of Solomon 2:6 εὐώνυμος
- Ezekiel 16:46 εὐώνυμος
- Zechariah 4:3 εὐώνυμος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2176) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 14:22 εὐώνυμος The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Exodus 14:29 εὐώνυμος But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Numbers 20:17 εὐώνυμος Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.
- Joshua 13:3 εὐώνυμος from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
- Joshua 23:6 εὐώνυμος Therefore be you very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;
- 2 Samuel 16:6 εὐώνυμος He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
- 1 Kings 22:19 εὐώνυμος [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
- 2 Kings 11:11 εὐώνυμος The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king round about.
- 2 Chronicles 3:17 εὐώνυμος He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
- 2 Chronicles 4:8 εὐώνυμος He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
- Song of Solomon 2:6 εὐώνυμος His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.
- Song of Solomon 8:3 εὐώνυμος His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me.
- Ezekiel 16:46 εὐώνυμος Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
- Ezekiel 21:21 εὐώνυμος For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
- Zechariah 4:3 εὐώνυμος and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it."
- Zechariah 4:11 εὐώνυμος Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?"
- Zechariah 12:6 εὐώνυμος In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2176) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
